After the words stop coming out, the grimoire burns itself. In a short time, the book is burned and leaves no trace that the book ever existed. Right, the shop keeper said the book will be burnt after we used it, no second chance. It feels so sucks, like cheating in a test.
"Lunette! Let's do this together!" I shout at Lunette and start running towards the chimera. I feel more brave right now, thanks to Leo.
To be honest, I don't think Lunette can handle this by herself. I can tell she's almost at her limit while fighting the chimera. She's clashing her sword against its claw in fierce. Her breath is getting heavier and heavier now, it's almost like she can't hold it anymore. The chimera's every attack is heavy and quick, making it more difficult by the time.
I run towards them and prepare myself to get into the fight one more time. As I reach them, I wield my sword and swing it towards the chimera's body with my full power. I filled my sword with my own mana until it reached its limit. Once I'm in front of it, I swing my sword with all of my strength.
"Take this!!" I use my magic and sword at the same time against the chimera.
When my sword touches its body, a huge ice appears and freezes its entire body. Lunette was surprised by the effect of my magic. Her jaw dropped and her eyes widened in surprise. Of course, I'm surprised as well. I never thought it would have such a big effect. Half of its body is frozen with my ice and difficult to move or break free.
Lunette chuckles and smirks before speaking with a hint of excitement in her tone, "Good, Luna! Leave everything to me now!"
Right, it uses mana more than I thought, I don't think I could move again now. Maybe leaving everything to her right now is the best option. I just let my body fall back and sit on the ground limply. I can barely stand up right now.
Lunette uses her magic and keeps attacking the chimera with all of her mana as if it was the final attack of her. She creates a barrage of fireballs and attacks it nonstop while the ice is melting by the flame. She doesn't care if the ice melts or if the chimera can break free from the ice, though there is no energy left for the chimera to move. The view is covered by smoke from the flame, almost impossible to see anything at the moment. The air is very hot due to the rising temperature by Lunette's magic, and the air becomes thick every second. The sweat keeps pouring from my body from the heat.
"FINAL ATTACK!" She shouts with a loud voice and prepares for the last attack.
The smoke finally clears and showing the chimera weakened state, it can't stand anymore. The chimera grunts and growls while trying to stand itself, but it's too weak to do that. Even its voice that can stun us before, now is almost like a beast's whine.
Lunette doesn't give it any mercy and shapes the fire into a giant fire sword while holding it in the air. Isn't it very bad? What if her magic hits me as well? I'm in the range, though. Lunette!! Don't over do it!!
Lunette shouts and throws the giant sword shaped flame towards the chimera with all of her power, "DIE, YOU LITTLE CAT!!"
The fire moves to the chimera's body, slowly but surely. It's not reached its body yet, but the heat is too hot and I can feel my heart almost burn only by breathing the air. The chimera's fur is burning slowly as the magic slowly approaches its body.
Lunette grabs my body and drags me while running away from her own magic. Wait, does it mean she realizes that she's overdoing it?! That dumb!! She runs away with a smile on her face while bringing me on her shoulder. I don't know why but this condition is kind of embarrassing, or maybe awkward.
I can't help but pinch her cheek with my hand, "Lunette, you overdone it, you know?"
She chuckles at me and says, "I know, but I just got carried away."
After we're far enough, the fire sword gets through the chimera's body and starts burning its body. The flame is spreading on its body, and half of its body is covered by flame and burned. Every second, the fire spreads to its whole body as the chimera growls in pain. The chimera is struggling to stand up since it's too weak to move, plus the fire keeps burning around its body and almost covers its body completely.
We're almost reached Leo's place, at least it's pretty far and safe from the explosion. We can see Leo's tired form lying on the ground with closed eyes, maybe he's sleeping right? I think he's very exhausted until we need to wake him up later.
The fire covers all of its body and turns into a giant fireball with the chimera inside. We can barely hear its growl anymore, its body completely covered by the fireball. The fireball is becoming smaller and smaller each second and focusing into one point until it can't be smaller anymore then… BOOM!! It exploded and burnt the chimera into ashes.
Lunette drops me down onto the ground and screams with excitement. Don't say if she's doing it on purpose so she can see this view. It's almost like we're watching a firework right now. I can see her excited face never faltering as she sees the chimera is returning to its normal, but lifeless as its body turns into ashes slowly.
Lunette sighs in relief and speaks to me, "I think it's over now. The chimera is only an ash now." She laughs as the nightmare is over.
I nod at her and speak with a relieved tone, "It's a shame that Loir isn't with us anymore. So, it's only the three of us that survive from this dungeon. But why didn't you use that magic before?"
She looks away from me and smiles nervously, "I have my own reason too, you know? I need to cast it for a long time and I really need quite a lot of mana to cast it. You know the bigger our magic is, the more time we need to cast, right?"
I nod in agreement, what she said is true. I continue to ask here with a curious tone, "But it is taking that long to cast?"
She nods and speaks again to me with a tired tone, "Yes, it is. If I can do it faster I will finish it from the first time we meet the chimera, right? And thanks to that I can't use my magic anymore, I'm not brave enough to spend my entire mana since that can kill me."
Right, if our body doesn't have mana anymore we will be dead. Our mana is our life itself, we can't waste all of it. But now I'm kind of curious about the knight's note. It says that back from before mana or magic didn't exist in the human body. It's completely contrary to our law right now where if we don't have magic anymore we will be dead. Anyway, I think we only need to find more information about this. I think we have another goal to achieve.
Half of the chimera's body has turned into ashes, only leaving its claws, fangs, wings that fell off after it transformed, and its tail with snake form. I think we should collect some of the chimera parts to sell so we finally can get an income. Today is a very tiring day, too much information and incidents until I hardly understand it. I think I should just wake Leo up then get out of this dungeon.
"Leo!! Wake up!! There is no time to sleep, this is not funny!!" I heard Lunette shouting those words while shaking Leo's body vigorously.
I quickly look at them and run towards them to see the condition. What does she mean? It's not real, right? Once I reached right in front of Leo's body, I could see his lifeless form right in front of us. It was too late, Leo was unable to survive too. Really? It's too funny, after we were having fun even in the dungeon, and went through many difficulties, it's only the two of us that survive? This must be a joke.
I can't help but cry as the sadness wells up inside me. Lunette pats my back to comfort me, though she's showing her sad face as well. She's not crying, probably trying to act tough for me. There is no other voice around us, only my sobs and cries, and Lunette's pat at my back. This is a nightmare, I can't believe this happened. The room filled with sadness and sorrow, only leaving us in the silent room with the two corpses and the chimera corpses.
The tears stream down my face and there is no sign of stop. My sobs filled the silence in the room. I don't understand why Lunette can stay calm in this situation. Though, I can see her sadness towards her face even if she tries to hide it. My hands are trembling in fear. My heart feels so empty and my brain feels like it stops working and is filled with eternal sadness. I keep wiping off the tears from my eyes, but it keeps escaping from my eyes no matter how hard I try. I think I need some time to calm myself for now.
After a while, we composed ourselves and looted the parts of the chimera's body and put it on the bag, though the bag wasn't that big so we could barely loot all of it. We manage to go outside the dungeon and we walk through the forest to reach Euler City. The silence is too much for us to bear, almost there are some spaces in our conversation. It's not that awkward, but after all of this, only the two of us from four people. This sucks.